Clock-chime.



No. 663,085. Patented Dec. 4, |900. R. H. MAYLAND.

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Patented Dec. 4, |900. R. H. MAYLAND.

CLOCK CHIME.

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INVENTOR HIS ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROVLAND H. MAYLAND, OF FRFEPORT, NEW' YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE BAWO dt DOTTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOCK-CHIME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 663,085, dated December 4, 1900.

Application iiled January 5, 1900. Serial No. 422. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.:

Beit known that I, ROWLAND H. MAYLAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Freeport, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Olock- Chimes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to clock-chimes, and more particularly to the chime devices of such mechanisms.

I will describe a clock-chime embodying` my invention and then point out the novel features thereof in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a top View of a clock-chime and mechanism embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of a tube-supporting rack. Fig. 5 is a top view of the same. Fig. 6 is an end view. Fig. 7 is a top view of a tubular bell. Fig. S is a sectional view of a tubular bell, taken on the line m c of Fig. 7. Fig. 9 is a detail sectional view, partly in elevation and showing the manner of supporting a chime device. Figs. 4L to 9, both inclusive, are drawn to a larger scale than Figs. 1 to 3.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

A represents a suitable framework which may tit within a clock-casing, or it may forni part of the clock-casing.

B represents a clock mechanism; O, a pinwheel; D, hammers, and F. the chime devices, which are here shown as tubular bells. The hammers D may be of any construction and arrangement, and they are connected by cords d to the levers CW, which are actuated by the pin-wheel O. It will be understood that the pin-wheel is to be operated from the clock mechanism in any desired manner and at any desired time intervals, and any desired means may be employed for causing the pin-wheel to cease operating.

The tubular bells E are of metal. In chime ably by soldering.

other purpose of adding the load on one end of the tube, which load is beyond the end of the tube and in intimate contact therewith,

is that by striking the load the vibration of the tube is more regular and the quality of the fundamental tone of that tube improved. A further purpose of adding the load to the end of the tube is that the dead or notai7 point of the tube is brought much nearer its end, thereby having the tubes point of suspension nearer its end. By raising the point of suspension of the tube and having the load on one end thereof the swinging of the tube after it has been struck by the hammer is materially lessened. If desired, the point of suspension may be through the load.

In Figs. 4., 5, and 6 I have shown a rack for suspending chime devices. It consists of a base F, which is secured to standards f, and a plurality of projecting arms f', which are carried by the base. In the drawings the arms f are shown as extending horizontally from the base. The base is provided with a number of notches or cut-out portions f2, and each arm is formed with notches or cut-out portiousfat its extremity. The chime-tubes are suspended between the armsf, and the suspension-cordfl of each tube has its ends tied and placed in two of the notches f2 and in the notches of the arms between which the tube is suspended.

I/Vhat I claim as my invention is l. .A tubular bell having a metallic weight or load secured tothe annular end of the tube and exterior to the bore of the tube.

2. Atubular bell having a metallic weight or load transversely disposed in relation to the tube and exterior to its bore, and a suitable connection between the weight or load and adjacent parts of the tube.

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A chime device consisting of zt tubular body and a resonant weight or load beyond one end thereof and secured in intimate contact with the end surface of said tubular body.

4L. A chime device consisting` of a tnbuhtr body, a weight or load beyond one end thereof and secured in contact with the end of said tubular body, land et device for striking the said weight or load.

5. The combination in a chime mechanism of a number of chime devices, and zt rack from which said tubes tre suspended, said rack com prising at horizontally-arranged base, provided with notches, e number of arms extendinftg` out from said base, each provided with a notch and ft cord for each chime-tube which cord pnsses through the chime-tube and is placed in two of the notches in the base and the notches of the two firms .between which the tube is suspended.

6. Arack forsuspendingchimedevices consisting of n base having :t number of notches or cut-out p0rtions,ztrms extending` outwardly from saidlmse andeach provided with zt notch ait its end.

7. The combination with chime devices of means for suspendingl them, said means comprising` 2L base provided with notches, arms extending from the base and each having L notch tt its end, and 2t cord which is passed through each arm and placed in -ft notch or notches in the hase and the notches of two arms between which the tube is suspended.

ln testimony whereof have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing; witnesses.

ROWLAND H. MAYLAND.

Witnesses:

GEO. E. CRUSE, DONALD CAMPBELL. 

